20 hilarious ‘newsroom jokes’ every journalist would relate to

Published on June 1, 2017 5:32 pm

Journalists are a rare breed. They may appear all composed and calm on the outside, but one must see them at their workplace. With news breaking every moment, they scream, shout, gulp down several cups of coffee and then type furiously. Anybody who has been a journalist at work will tell you the absolute madness the profession entails, and also how severely unpaid it is. But they will also tell you that given a chance, they would probably choose the same profession all over again. We bring to you 20 instances of hilarious conversations that happen in a newsroom, and take it from us they are disturbingly accurate.

'Sources' that is the keyword. (Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Yes, journalists speak like this.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

And this happens a lot of times.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Basically summing up the profession.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

We all heard that from our bosses.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

This is fairly common.(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

In case you wanted a definition for them.(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

True story.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

This (does not) happen almost every morning
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Oh yes!
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

The struggle is real,
people.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Coffee is the word.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

That is the irony.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

This is sad and funny at the same time.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Or so we would like to believe.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

This was brutal.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

We are sure this must have happened.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

This is the perennial struggle.
(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Both, maybe?(Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Sometimes things go a little out of hand. (Source: Overheard in the Newsroom/Facebook, Designed by Rajan Sharma)